sport
Other forms: sports; sporting; sported
Sport has many definitions, the most familiar of which is a game involving physical exertion — think tennis or hockey. Randomly, sport can also mean to wear, as in, "he looked sharp sporting a yellow sport coat."
Most of the definitions of sport involve the idea of fun, or of something being fair. Hopefully organized sports are both. A sporting chance means a player in a game has a fair chance of winning. A good sport is someone who plays fair, and wins and loses graciously. If you torture flies for sport, you do it for fun, and that's just wrong. If you make sport of your little sister's stutter, you make fun of it, and that's even worse.
Definitions of sport
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an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competitionsynonyms: athleticstypes:rock climbingthe sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)contact sporta sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing playersgymnastic exercise, gymnasticsa sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agilitytrack and fieldparticipating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with itskiinga sport in which participants must travel on skisarcherythe sport of shooting arrows with a bowsleddingthe sport of riding on a sled or sleighskatingthe sport of gliding on skatesracingthe sport of engaging in contests of speedequitation, horseback riding, ridingthe sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movementscyclingthe sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycleblood sportsport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)athletic gamea game involving athletic activityjudoa sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japanspectator sporta sport that many people find entertaining to watchteam sporta sport that involves competition between teams of playersjumpingthe act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jumpcross-country skiingthe sport of skiing across the countryside (rather than downhill)ski jumpingthe act of performing a jump on skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slopesurfboarding, surfing, surfridingthe sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wavewater-skiingskiing on water while being towed by a motorboatcraba stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeplyscullingrowing by a single oarsman in a racing shelltobogganingriding on a long light sled with low handrailsbobsleddingriding on a bobsledgrappling, rassling, wrestlingthe sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other downice skatingskating on iceroller skatingskating on wheelsskateboardingthe sport of skating on a skateboardspeed skatingcompetitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course)boat racingthe sport of racing boatscamel racingthe sport of racing camelsgreyhound racingthe sport of racing greyhoundshorse racingthe sport of racing horsesequestrian sporta sport that tests horsemanshippony-trekkinga sport in which people ride across country on poniesbicyclingriding a bicyclemotorcyclingriding a motorcycledune cyclingbicycling or motorcycling on sand dunescockfightingparticipation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfighthockey, hockey game, ice hockeya game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled stickstetherballa game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the polewater poloa game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goaloutdoor gamean athletic game that is played outdoorsfootball, football gameany of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goalcourt gamean athletic game played on a courttype of:
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someone who engages in sportssynonyms: sportsman, sportswoman
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the occupation of athletes who compete for paytypes:professional boxingboxing for moneyprofessional wrestlingwrestling for moneysumoa Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the groundprofessional golfplaying golf for moneyprofessional footballfootball played for payprofessional baseballplaying baseball for moneyprofessional basketballplaying basketball for moneyprofessional tennisplaying tennis for moneytype of:business, job, line, line of work, occupationthe principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
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verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
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a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
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(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alterationtypes:leviathanthe largest or most massive thing of its kind
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(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Mainesynonyms: summercatertype of:vacationer, vacationistsomeone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work
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play boisterously
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wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
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